Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/23

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Definition of a Professional
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 23:25:49 -0600

At 11:04 PM 2/23/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Or, conversely, pull some art director's butt out of the fire on short
>notice with a tight deadline, do it creatively, have grace under
>pressure, make it look easy, deliver on or ahead of when promised. That
>is being a professional. That is how to maintain clients. That is how
>new work is acquired.

Reminds me of the time I did two jobs for Sports Illustrated in one week. 
The above is exactly what I did on the first assignment, and thus the 
second one came to me when he couldn't find anyone in Kansas City to do 
what he wanted.

Such luck! I think, now I might be able to get more work from SI. But, I 
picked up the next issue of SI and there was a picture of the photo editor 
I had worked with, announcing he was going to medical school.

Not a phone call from them since. :-(

Eric Welch
St. Joseph, MO
http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch

My computer's sick. I think my modem is a carrier.